Dang they really got a category for everything

Our summer double is out, with unmissable stuff from @pghoskin.bsky.social @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com @benansell.bsky.social @mrhenrymorris.substack.com @katemaltby.bsky.social @samirashackle.bsky.social @katherinestewart.bsky.social and me....

This is a great entry-level opportunity.

"As far as the government is concerned, they’ve washed their hands of us. Would they do that to a white person?" For a @prospectmagazine.co.uk feature on Britain's citizenship-stripping boom, I spoke to families of people who have had citizenship revoked www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/uk/...

"Would they do that to a white person? No, they did that because we’re Muslims. They treat us like third-class people.” UK citizenship stripping powers are unfair, unjust and extreme. We worked with @samirashackle.bsky.social on this piece that gives voice to victims of this draconian legislation.

I think Farage has had a lot of success as a politician because he is audacious, he has a lot of financial backing, he knows how to grab attention, and he gets a relatively easy ride in the press. But that doesn't mean he's got the upper hand at all times - even when he's being forced to resign!

I think this is the right reading. Farage is trying to move the terrain to what he knows best (campaigning, division) from a position of weakness. It's an act of desperation. It may pay off in Clacton, which is incredibly right-wing, but it's bad for his reputation and his party nationally.

Describe the economy in a single sentence

This is a really good and clear thread.

Just perfect

Temperature hits 37.3C Before this week Britain had never recorded a June temperature above 36C

This week I've been thinking of a story I reported a couple of years ago, about David Azevedo, a construction worker in France who died from heat exposure in 2022. It was 35C, and he was on his third day of a new job. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

1000 schools closed or shutting early, apparently. Massive economic impact!

My daughter's school is closing at lunchtime for the rest of the week due to extreme temperatures. I don't think this is sustainable as these heatwaves get more and more common, and there probably needs to be a serious discussion about funding AC in schools so they're safe through the summer.

There’s a lot happening with this headline.

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

If the bloke wielding a knife and attacking passersby was a Muslim all today's rolling news and political programmes would be coming live from the streets of Edinburgh and Farage's ugly mush would be on every show.

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

Teenagers have described easy workarounds — drawing a mustache on their face for an age estimation scan www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...

If nothing else sweeping and unworkable legislation drawn up as a desperate attempt at survival that won’t even work in raw political terms is a fitting legacy move.

A generation of children confined to exclusively posting on LinkedIn, humbled to share that they have been recognised as thought leaders in vertically integrating your mom's supply chain.

1. UK government proposes sweeping new laws to regulate the Internet 2. Experts warn the powers are badly-defined, technologically unfeasible and will be difficult to enforce 3. Government passes them anyway 4. Enforcement turns out to be hard 5. Government proposes more new laws

Love this as a prevention case study: - Low cost, even revenue raising in the short term - Improves health outcomes and reduces costly hospital admissions Shows political leadership is key: - Politically costly for Khan to implement - Did it despite cost savings landing outside GLA

A lot of good commentary on how the police's messaging on Belfast is so much better than the media - depressingly true! - but it's also not new. Police Federation chair Liam Kelly described last year's violence in Ballymena as “mindless, unacceptable and feral” and “a pogrom” *at the time*.

the right: we are concerned about stuff that isn’t true the government: we must address these concerns or we will erode trust! the left: we also have conce- the government: how the FUCK did you get in here? get out and grow up, you pricks, that’s just how the world works

Keir Starmer's spokesman tells me there has been "no change" to the Government's policy on using X, despite Elon Musk helping to incite the hateful scenes we saw in Belfast last night. Also no new plans to take action against X for its role in the violence

At what point does the government move to do something about the open incitement of far right pogroms on X? Or the spreading of hate speech and wild misinformation on the platform? It’s all happening in plain sight. What else has to burn?

We need leaders who can spell out what's happening clearly and with force.

This is an amazing, and insane, story.

Absolutely crucial piece of research on misinformation in local news on Facebook, X and Nextdoor by @smfthinktank.bsky.social Full report is here (www.smf.co.uk/publications...) but these are some key findings:

This is wild!

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

I can’t get over all the journalists and centrist pundits who sneered that “Twitter isn’t real life” when it was full of weird leftists but now insist it’s a vital window into the public mood when the entire site is Nazis, illegal porn, bots, and Belarusians calling themselves “Iowa MAGA Farm Guy”

Fiona Bruce: You described yourself as sexist. Robert Kenyon: Allegedly. Bruce: What, you're denying that was a tweet by you? Kenyon: No

your regular reminder that Reform published a draft bill in May last year which promised to deregulate the crypto industry and cut stamp duty on transactions from 24% to 10%

Excellent piece by @stephenkb.bsky.social about the Henry Nowak case and what it does/doesn't show about policing www.ft.com/content/aa94...

I am really, really worried about how little mainstream broadcasters and politicians are pushing back against explicit racism. It isn’t difficult to contextualise or challenge with facts. They manage it on other topics.

Indeed. In the 1960s many more people held racist attitudes but both the government and opposition were consistent in condemning open racism. We now have am emboldened and tolerated minority by both government and opposition.

"I wonder why the birthrate briefly increased slightly in 2021, 9 months after everyone was forced to stay home with nothing to do, then dipped again as the public mood soured? The only possible explanation is immigrants."

Really enjoyed answering Mathew’s questions about books and reading.

New on the Writer’s Bookshelf this morning: eight questions about writers, books, and reading with the brilliant @samirashackle.bsky.social.

We love to see it!

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

Latest data due tomorrow but your regular reminder: net migration is *plunging* without these plans being enacted.

Yeah I have a pension plan it’s called the sweet release of death

Wild story from @londoncentric.media about a Bollywood couple buying up a bunch of flats near their Notting Hill mansion to house their staff www.londoncentric.media/p/sonam-kapo...

Terrific journalism from actually looking at the money flows as.ft.com/r/1e5fba60-4...

Reform are very good at moving the goalposts. They said they’d win Gorton and Denton (lost by 12pts), win Wales (lost by 6pts), destroy the Tories in 2026 (PNS rose vs 2025) and win six London boroughs (won one). Each time journalists concluded those outcomes were clear from the outset

Very good and informative thread.